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A blast from the past....non bee.

I know, I know, this doesn’t have anything to do with bees. But while cleaning out a closet today I ran across this old friend from another time. Anyone else ever have to use one of these? Better yet...does anyone else know what it is?

Dan www.boogerhillbee.com
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards

Re: A blast from the past....non bee.

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In Russia we called it "logarithmic scale". I have no idea how it's called in English. Yes, I spend a lot of time doing calculations with it. Sometime I missed old days (indicating that I am old), when life were simpler and one actually could disassemble and then assemble thing and it would work... In my "logarithmic scale" we also had a normal precise ruler - it was expected that one use it for technical drawings and "calculator" part is at hands if any quick calculations necessary. Sergey

Re: A blast from the past....non bee.

I was able to learn beekeeping but not how to use a slide rule. More than a few buttons on a calculator is beyond me too. I have one in mycloset also, next to my dial phone, 8 track player, and reel to reel.

Re: A blast from the past....non bee.

I was in the last class in my high school that learned how to use one of those- 1973 or 74, then our Scientific Calculations and Measurements class got TWO Texas Instruments TI-50 calculators. We thought we were pretty hot stuff...

I really like the old K&E engineering slide rules. I can't remember whether you add or subtract a power of 10 when the slide goes left..

Re: A blast from the past....non bee.

Slide rules were required for my college chemistry class...back in the late 60's. I try to blame the slide rule for flunking out but it was probably due to the alcohol instead; not the stuff used in chemistry class but the stuff used in rum glass. Interesting though, after four years in the Navy, and going back to college, I am now a Professor of Biology (33 years) at the same exact institution I flunked out of. Should I credit that to hand-held calculators?

Re: A blast from the past....non bee.

Originally Posted by odfrank

I was able to learn beekeeping but not how to use a slide rule. More than a few buttons on a calculator is beyond me too. I have one in mycloset also, next to my dial phone, 8 track player, and reel to reel.

Waaait just a minute. I'm still using the dial phone in my extracting room. I have tried several others there but the ole ringer on the dial phone is the only one I can hear with all the equipment running. It's right over there on the wall by the 8 track tapes.

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